On April 7th, 2008 Republican Presidential candidate John McCain published an op-ed about the Iraq war in the Washington Post. That same day, Fred Thompson, who is considering his own Presidential run, wrote a blog post about Iran on Red State, a conservative blog community.
Two very different approaches....
Continue ReadingWashington Post website redesigned as a wiki?
A Japan-based design firm has redesigned the Post in the wiki style. Interesting. Reminds me of a stripped down version of the current New York Times website. <Via Martin Stabe>
Wikis, Indexes, Context, and the News
Amy Graham from the Poynter Institute writes about how wikis might be used by the news media: “They could play a valuable role not just in supplying engagement and context,...
Continue ReadingMatt Stoller of MyDD has an interesting post today that looks at why the Republicans appear to be falling behind Democrats in their use of the Internet. Here is how he closes the piece:
I’ve been digging into this question, of why the left is winning online, for years now....
Continue ReadingSo far this cycle, two candidates for President have fully embraced the concept of user-generated content: John Edwards and Barack Obama. Barack Obama has his own social network and allows users to create their own blogs hosted on his site. John Edwards hosts a DailyKos style blog network that allows any user to start their own diary/blog on his site....
Continue ReadingWagner James Au of GigaOM has a fascinating look at why, despite the endless hype, marketing in Second Life hasn’t proven to be effective yet. This is a good companion piece to a link I posted yesterday that provides some practical reasons to be skeptical of Second Life’s marketing potential (put me in the big time skeptic category)....
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